incarceration : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: incarceration	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for incarceration
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
incarceration n the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" Synonym(s): captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Incarceration \Incar`cera"tion\, n. [Cf. F. incarc[82]ration.] 1. The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. --Glanvill. 2. (Med.) (a) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. (b) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.